As someone who supports community central notice campaigns, I must point out that this list is not the appropriate venue for any discussion that aims to arrive at any decision relating to such a banner campaign and any thread here would in no way directly result in such action. There are precedents in this area for campaigns that relate to policy or political causes and for internal purposes some of these have been codified as part of the following guidance:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Association_Guideline#Promotional_Use_of_Website_Assets From a community perspective it would be expected for discussions to occur on wiki and there be a clear and present need to establish a firm consensus via RfC. Said RfC would focus on whether action on a particular topic should or should not take place, it's nature and scale. There would also need to be discussions and approvals internally for any campaign as detailed in the guidance above. Regards Seddon On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Bill Takatoshi <[email protected]> wrote: > In the past two days I've been four off-list messages in response to > my request for proposed banner language, all but one from James > Salsman, who I recently defended here and who was subsequently "placed > on moderation." I asked moderator Richard Ames whether it would be > appropriate to forward his messages, and he said they should be sent > to the moderation queue. James then sent me a BCC of a very brief post > yesterday, which apparently has not yet been approved. James then sent > me, but not the list, arguments about the merits of the various > alternatives. I don't agree with the censorship, but in deference to > the moderator I am sending these links without James's commentary: > > http://i.imgur.com/3Fb8Zrr.png > > http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8671628/national- > strike-protest-president-donald-trump/ > > https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5s6ay6/activists_call_for_a_ > nationwide_strike_in_protest/ddctj1h/ > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/ > 31/wheres-the-best-place-to-resist-trump-at-work/ > > https://www.thenation.com/article/throw-sand-in-the-gears-of-everything/ > > Another respondent who asked that I not use their name suggested that > an effective campaign can be patterned after this recent success: > > http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/progressive- > activism-forces-uber-ceo-break-trump > > Could we please have banner text proposals do NOT call for a general > strike? I am not suggesting it be ruled out, nor am I suggesting that > we not join the call. I am simply asking for discussion in the middle > ground. > > -Will > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
